Paul Mescal, the star of Hulu’sNormal People, is pretty, well, normal.
“I can’t go in right now I’m working!”
Mescal had better get used to all the attention.
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There was a responsibility to communicate all of that with looks, glances, breaths or half-finished sentences."
“I re-read and re-read and re-read,” he says.
“I definitely wasn’t cool when I met her,” he says.
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“I was in total awe.
Any time I meet her now, it’s still the same.”
In such an intense and yet quiet story, the importance of authentic chemistry can’t be understated.
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Luckily, for everyone involved, the spark between Edgar-Jones and Mescal was undeniable from the get-go.
“Daisy and I just got on.
“It was always Lenny’s intention for it to be honest and truthful,” says Mescal.
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“I was really excited by how Sally wrote it,” he says.
Instead she shows the effects of those things.
Mescal would be lying if he said he isn’t feeling the pressure.
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I have thought, ‘Oh s—, what if I get this wrong?
Im gonna be hated and Im never going to work again.'”
Considering the positive early reviews, it seems more than likely he’ll work again and often.
Now all he has to do is try and stay as normal as possible.
I think we’ve managed to maintain the spirit of it."
All 12 episodes ofNormal Peoplearrive Wednesday on Hulu.
